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My wife and are I about to have a baby, which is great! But as most new parents quickly learn, modern babies seem to need a lot of accessories – crib, changing surface, diapers, car seat, stroller, and, of course, a baby monitor (among many other things).
Choosing the right baby monitor proved to be an interesting challenge for me in particular: I recalled the various recent headlines of devices being easily hacked, their video streams compromised, and scary voices coming on the two-way talk functions and screaming things at babies in the dark.